Kindness From Fellow Bikers

[Lissa]

Reading about the appaling and inexcusable behaviour Stuaryboy was subjected to at the weekend has really bothered me. Surely our nationality/ colour/ sex/ etc shouldn't matter.................we're all out there on two wheels. Aren't there enough people out there against us without us starting on each other?

So I'm looking for positive experiences..............times when a fellow Biker has shown you an act of kindness, whether a friend or stranger.

I still feel immense gratitude to a guy called Brian, a member of the Mighty South London Triumph Owners Club. 29 years ago he came to my aid when my then boyfriend b*gg*red off and left me stranded at a rally 80 miles from home. He not only took me all the way home, he wouldn't let me give him a penny towards the petrol. That is true kindness.

So what positive experince have you had?

[Stig]

Broken down on the M4 with a broken fuel pump. Rider went from about 100mph in the far lane to a stand still in about 2 feet. Gave me his RAC card and said when I was done to post it back. :thumleft:

[pencil shavings]

When I was 17 and new to riding and more naieve that I am now a kind BMW rider helped me get through a snow storm on the A3 on my way home to London. It was more moral suport on the hard sholder after I 'tired' to ride through the snow! But it was very needed and welcome. :smt111

[SoulKiss]

When I was 17 and new to riding and more naieve that I am now a kind BMW rider helped me get through a snow storm on the A3 on my way home to London. It was more moral suport on the hard sholder after I 'tired' to ride through the snow! But it was very needed and welcome. :smt111

I know that this thread is mostly aimed at kindness from strangers, but without many of the people I now call friends (and they call me "Oh no not Dave again, oh bugger, hes seen us") from here in the org I wouldnt be so happy as a motorcyclist.

From those that guided me to my 1st Selkent meeting (1st real ride) to those who phoned for the ambulance and got my bike home after my off and came to get me from the hospital, then store and help me mend it.

So , thanks to everyone in the org that I have met, and to some of you who I haven't but who have given me positive encouragement.

Thanks

David

[gettin2dizzy]

I did my cbt, and then bought a hyosung comet 125 from oxford needing to drive it back to newcastle! It was in a poor state, so at a garage asked a guy to check it was alright, he checked it all over for me and adjusted both the brakes and clutch!
What was he riding.....a red SV!
On my way back (all 8 hours of rain and dark! for a complete novice!) I had so many bikers ask how i was doing at service stations. It was a great introduction! :)

[rictus01]

A subject close to my heart for sure, I've always been around bike since I can remember, could use a spanner before I could walk (I'd imagine), at times I've been skint and relied on others hand me downs, be it tyres, brakes,even nails of bikes, but always somehow managed to keep riding, I've had people stop and offer help and support when I've needed it in the passed, now days it tends to be me who'll stop and help, probably done 20 puncture repairs on others bikes to each on mine, i don't forget where I came from, an these days always tried to help where I can, be it lending a tool of making a bit.

I know it's slightly "rose coloured glasses" to believe were all part of a big family kind of thing, but I choose to look and act as if we are, hey it makes my world a better place anyway.

Let's not forget the nearly 200 bikers that have visited me over the passed 11 months of so either.

Cheers Mark.

[northwind]

For some reason I always freak people out when I try and stop to help :) Apparently I look like a killer, or something.

[Luckypants]

Loads of them, but an example is all the messages of support from you guys and the real concern of those present after my off.

For kindness from complete strangers.... I was heading up the Col de Lautaret in '97 in a BIBLICAL thunder storm and truly ****ting myself when I was passed by a group of Swiss bikers. They stopped, stopped me, checked I was OK and asked if I wanted to ride with them for safety over the pass. I gladly accepted and they waved me off cheerily when we crossed the Col and the storm passed over.

[SV225]

On the occasions that my RS125 blew up, I had loads of people (not just on bikes) stop to check if I needed help. :thumbsup:

[melody]

Everyone was a stranger to me at AR07. yet everyone was really friendly:D

[mister c]

It doesn't hust extend to other bikers.
Years ago i had an X7 that i used to get back & to to work on. One night, about 15 miles from home the thing died on me. My only option was to start walking (no mobile phones in them days) to get to a phone box.
I had walked about a mile when a woman pulled up by the side of me in a car & asked if i needed a lift anywhere. I told her that I was after a phone box, so she said "jump in". We got talking & she said that it wasn't the normal thing for her to do, but she had seen the bike & felt sorry for me :)
She drove the 15 miles to my house, I offered her some cash for petrol, but declined it saying it was her good deed for the day.

[2mths]

Out of petrol on the CG. Bloke on a big ol' XJ stopped to see what was the matter. Helped me tilt the bike so far over to get teh last bit of juice. Got me another mile down the road with him following. Did the same again and another mile - then totally dry. I was close to home and there was nothing he could do so bid him thanks and farewell. Pushed it perhaps half a mile further and a bloke in a white van (flatbed transit) stopped. He helped me lift it onto the back, tied it up and delivered me home. He wasn't a biker, reckoned he'd kill himself if he got one (no self control) but a top bloke non the less.

I've stopped a few times when I've seen a bike on the side of the road. Typically these days if I see a mobile phone out then I don't bother and it's the one bit of non-safety kit I try very hard not to ride without.

[Tris]

The bloke and his wife in a Freelander who stopped all the traffic on a roundabout under the A34 when the bike cut out (dreaded regulator :mad:) and left me stranded in the middle trying to push it across all the traffic on the RB doing about 60mph

They then went back round the roundabout and came and said they were bikers and asked if I needed a lift anywhere

Top people

[Kinvig]

Reading about the appaling and inexcusable behaviour Stuaryboy was subjected to at the weekend has really bothered me.

Think I missed this one?

[hovis]

nothing to report

the first time i ran out of petrol about 5 bikers past b4 my mate came in his car

the 2nd time (last weekend ellan valley) about 40 all past me at differant times

bunch of :toss:

[Ceri JC]

For some reason I always freak people out when I try and stop to help :) Apparently I look like a killer, or something.

They're thinking, "I want it fixed, not modified!" ](*,) :D

Best help I've received? The joint efforts of a lorry driver on the inside laneand a chap in a big german estate that turned his car sidewards (like the police do) to stop traffic on the M4 after an off when the ****ers started going as soon as I literally crawled onto the central reservation.

Think I missed this one?

Basically faced some anti-Scottish bigotry from some knobbers.
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=94596

[dirtydog]

I ran out of petrol once (after some theiving b*gger emptied my tank over night) and a bloke on an xjr stopped gave me a lift to the petrol station and then back to my bike. Another instance wason my old 125 the chain jumped off the rear sprocket and jammed up the rear wheel couldn't free it off and a passing lorry stopped and gave me a lift home which was about 2 miles the driver was a biker himself

Have had a few other instances where i've run out of petrol/fallen off/broken down and had a few people stop and offer help

[Warthog]

When I had my off, I literally did a superman vault right infront of a biker. His name was Mick Newton and he helped me get my bike off the road, lent me his mobile and stayed with me until I got picked up. Top bloke.

[plowsie]

Suppose one that comes to mind is TSM pulling over on the AR to see what had happened and if i was ok after i ran the ankle over, the man had to hold his bike up due to not having a sidestand, then he followed me into Leyburn to make sure i was ok. Top Bloke :thumbsup: I'm always seeing if bikers are ok when i see them parked up on the side of the road looking at bits of their bike.

[stuartyboy]

Everywhere I go I get bikers stopping over to say hello or suchlike. I just put last weekend down to one of life's mysteries. Can I just say that I know the North East very well and they are the nicest people - bikers or otherwise.

On the kindliness front - when I first got the Kwak the suspension was all to feck so I went out for a road test. I was by the side of the road adjusting the front damping then a bunch of bikers stopped to see if I was ok. Told them I was tweaking my sussies for the track day. The guys then helped me out with steadying the bike so I could set the rear preload. :thumleft:

[Tiger 55]

Ran out of petrol on the M6 many moons ago and every southbound bike, every one of them, stopped to ask if they could help! Every northbound bike gave me a sympathy wave too.

Eventually a matching leathers husband and wife team on a full dress Goldwing pulled out their 2 litre emergency petrol can (those people have everything) and got me to the next service station.

I was new to it all then but I always stop now, even if just for the usual thumbs up got my mobile wave off.

Bikers good! :)

[Lissa]

and the real concern of those present after my off.


What, you mean like, 'Look, just sit still, wait for the ambulance, and think yourself lucky you're not sitting in a bed of nettles!' :-dd

[dizzyblonde]

someone always helps a dizzyblonde!
Biker or not.
My gear lever fell off my 125 and I managed to pull up outside a house with a bandit in the garden, guy came out and fixed it for me. When we picked up the black sv the gear lever fell off the raptor. Im indoors found it was nearly fixed by a man in a van, by the time he'd got out of the bog in the services

[Quiff Wichard]

had loads of help.. and offers of help-

but what sums it up for me is-


if in the car with Kim and we see a biker on side of road a few hundred metres away ... she always says- ohh nooo you are going to stop arent you-

and I say OOHHH YESSSS !!


now that must be a non biker thing.. (or a woman thing).. she really does not understand the camaraderie.

[ArtyLady]

Stopped in layby for a drink of water a few weeks ago, biker pulled up
to check I wasn't a damsel in distress :cool: :smt023

mind you, I think he was disspointed I was an old damsel not a pretty young one :smt061 :lol:

[RhythmJunkie]

I came across a biker who had just fallen off due to avoiding a d*ck in a car on a narrow lane. I asked if he was ok and he had a go at me so I though f*ck you too and drove off! I was on a GSX at the time???

No-one ever stopped to help me cos, touch wood, my bikes don't let me down. TLC and all that! A few times dudes have slowed to see if everythings ok when I've stopped for a ciggie in a layby....oh well....its the thought that counts? :)

I have stopped to help millions of car drivers though, usually when it starts raining on the motorway, lift the bonnet and whip out me 'DuckOil'! Usually on their way in 30 seconds! :rolleyes:

[SoulKiss]

Had Rictus turn up just after 6 yesterday to help me with a battery issue, couldn't fix as it looked like a dead battery.

He turned up again this morning with a proper charger instead of his jump-pack thing and a spare battery.

Turns out my battery IS dead, so, thank you Anna for getting me to work this morning (Rictus's spare came from Anna's now dead bike)

David

[Pedro68]

After my off a few weeks ago now - the guys in the white van I had just slid out in front of got out and helped me pick my bike up, and checked I was ok. Ok so fair enough, my bike WAS blocking their way but the guy was a ringer for Billy Connolly (even down to a pink dye'd goatie!) and told me he used to be a biker too. They stayed with me until I'd phoned the RAC and they were sure I was going to be ok :)

Then the RAC guy turns up and altho he couldn't get the bike started (something to do with the clutch cut-off or something?!), he said I didn't look too well (very pale) after telling him my ankle was starting to throb ... so he stayed with me (the whole 2.5 friggin hours) until the recovery truck arrived. He even drove me down to the petrol station so I could get a coke and a mars bar (not entirely sure of their medicinal qualities, but they seemed to do the trick). Thoroughly nice bloke.

Pete

[Heed]

When I dropped my SV 3 bikers came running over to check that I was OK and helped me up with the bike. One of them offered to follow me home to check everything was OK. Apart from that I've never needed assistance really.

If I see a biker pulled over I'll always stop just in case they need a hand with anything. I've only had to stop twice up to now. Once when someone has wiped out on the Hartside road and once when a Hells Angel was pulled over but he said he was fine and was just looking for something he had dropped.

[peanut]

When I had my big off in the wilds of Surrey, every single biker that went past stopped to see if I was OK, including one chap on a ZX7R who got his tool kit out to see if he could get me going again (was never going to happen after a 50mph highside!).

Just a few weeks ago I saw a biker standed near my place on my way home from work and stopped to see if he was OK. He was fine as it turned out, but he told me he appreciated me stopping.

I'd never intentionally ride past a biker who looked like they needed a hand!

[gettin2dizzy]

me neither. all though more often than not I'll turn around at the next motorway/dual carriageway exit and go back and they'll be gone. But doesn't phase me in the slightest. At least you know if you get stranded on an SV you'll be ok!